A wash used to remove blood stains from the sidewalk was still visible Saturday afternoon after a 27-year-old man was stabbed in the early morning hours in New Glasgow. The man was found near the intersection of Archimedes and Forbes streets and was listed in critical but stable condition early Saturday morning.

On Saturday shortly before 2:30 a.m., New Glasgow Regional Police while on routine patrol noticed a male laying down near the intersection of Archimedes Street and Forbes Street New Glasgow where an adult male had been stabbed.

The 27-year-old man, who friends have identified as Scott Jones from New Glasgow was immediately transported to Aberdeen Hospital by Emergency Health Services where he was then airlifted to the Queen Elizabeth Health Sciences Centre Hospital in Halifax. The victim remains in critical but stable condition.

Friends say his spine was severed and he has been left paralyzed by the attack.

A wash used to remove blood stains from the sidewalk was still visible Saturday afternoon after a 27-year-old man was stabbed in the early morning hours in New Glasgow. The man was found near the intersection of Archimedes and Forbes streets and was listed in critical but stable condition early Saturday morning.